kotaKat

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   by kotaKat 3mo ago

   I thought they were too busy with a hardon for hydrogen power for the future. When'd GM suddenly decide they wanted to get into the salt battery game too? It's all a game of desperation for a failing automaker once again desperate
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   by kotaKat 3mo ago

   "But, but, the Tile TOS says they'll fine a stalker a million dollars!" Life360 is such a skeevy bullshit company.
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   by kotaKat 3mo ago

   I thought for a moment this was some kind of reference to "no more destroyed Amazon Ground trailers on underpasses"...
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   by kotaKat 3mo ago

   https://www.wired.com/story/diarrhea-outbreak-taylor-farms-m... "Taylor Farms donated more than $2 million to conservative political groups in 2025, according to Federal Election Commission filings. That includes
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   by kotaKat 3mo ago

   Next step is to "acquire" Tesla and give himself full control again.
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   by kotaKat 3mo ago

   i deal with a lot of nerds that are all interconnected with one another and nobody can agree on a common subnet for their houses when we all decide to exchange routes internally. ;)
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   by kotaKat 3mo ago

   there's a couple subnets I (ab)use in the DOD IP space for my home network knowing they'd never put them on the open internet. it's also fun to throw logging for a loop if someone digs. 22.0.0.0/8 - it's basically f
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   by kotaKat 3mo ago

   frmr ISP call center nerd here that took calls for hundreds of rural ISPs in North America, ranging from little rural fiber coops to as large as the former Hargray of South Carolina: The support costs of malware remediation fucking suck. Th
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   by kotaKat 3mo ago

   I'm glad you've wasted that much time trying to argue the shipping factor and I'm glad you get to brag even more that you can afford to live in San Francisco. I'll take some of your money now, please. I'm scraping t
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    by kotaKat 3mo ago

    I'm surprised how fast this came from the whole "give us your hand" bullshit with reCaptcha not being that long ago. https://docs.cloud.google.com/recaptcha/docs/hand-gesture-ve... "Google anal
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    by kotaKat 3mo ago

    To add even more context: This is to finance those $30 Android Go phones. This is for the 'developing nations' schtick. They aren't Payjoy Locking some super high end phone here, it's gonna be the $40 no-name Android h
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    by kotaKat 3mo ago

    Welcome to what Payjoy and friends have been doing for a while now. They claim to be "finance for the next billion" and ship a module that can be preloaded on OEM's phones (and placed into the Android 'nondisable' l
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    by kotaKat 3mo ago

    > Newman Lake, Washington You're 21 miles from Spokane. I'm over 120+ north from Syracuse, NY. That's not rural, not one iota. Our Walmart isn't even a Supercenter. > "If you can reasonably afford it"
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    by kotaKat 3mo ago

    * influx of Indian users on US-based residential proxies causing the 'popular in US' feed to be nothing but nonstop Indian-based clones of popular subreddits (indianteenagers and various others) * influx of group-specific-hate sub
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    by kotaKat 3mo ago

    I still can't even get a physical key anywhere in person. You can certainly get phones just about anywhere, but you can't get any FIDO keys at brick and mortar, last I checked. Until I can tell Grandma to "go down to Walmart
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    by kotaKat 3mo ago

    They're too busy pushing malware on the rest of their lineup in system updates left, right, and center. silently re-enables com.glance.lockscreenM one more time on you...
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    by kotaKat 3mo ago

    Junkyard Jumbotron redux? ;) https://github.com/mitmedialab/Junkyard-Jumbotron https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAUtSVSTbzU
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    by kotaKat 3mo ago

    Comes with the full Tesla experience of recalls and safety issues. https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2023/Radio-Flyer-Recalls-Cyberq...
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    by kotaKat 3mo ago

    They charge 63% for user-created items inside Fortnite as of next year. No, you don't get to build your own store inside Fortnite, but you do get to bend over to Epic's price gouging and profiteering of its own.
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    by kotaKat 3mo ago

    "If you think autistic people can't be funny you've probably never seen one being hyperfixated on committing to the bit, no matter the cost." [oof, I also feel this in my approach to projects.]
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    by kotaKat 3mo ago

    Also getting slammed with the "to keep Reddit safe" bullshit. How do banned users access Old Reddit? Do they just Not?
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    by kotaKat 3mo ago

    Same - I had an extremely horrid experience at a local dealership's service department, and that one only appears when I'm signed in and looking at it, but doesn't appear at all signed out, yet the rest of my reviews are A-OK
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    by kotaKat 3mo ago

    "Tech workers"? "a salary of more than $500,000 in her most recent position, as a mid-tier executive at Meta" I'm sorry, but if you're making over half a million in TC a year, you can have an emergency fund set
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    by kotaKat 3mo ago

    Slate also had 3 years of skunkworks behind the scenes by Re:Build Manufacturing as "Project Re:Car" with millions being thrown behind it by Bezos and friends. https://rebuildmanufacturing.com/work/slate&#x2
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    by kotaKat 3mo ago

    I've also had basically zero issue with Lightning connectors, but had a constant battle with USB-C of every kind to figure out what's charging, what's data, what's PD, and so much more hassle. I don't get why Apple
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    by kotaKat 3mo ago

    Sure? With the continual modern improvements and safety engineering and education, I'll live right at the nuke if you'd like. Every plant doesn't operate in a silo (well, it does in a physical sense) , the operating knowledg
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    by kotaKat 3mo ago

    and the hilarious part is if you're along the US-Canadian border (or in most of Maine), you're in this magical 1.9GHz PCS coordination zone that they can't provide T-Satellite service in, and provide basically zero informatio
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    by kotaKat 3mo ago

    So... I got banned from PayPal (with no explanation) and Stripe closed my account (with no recourse for 'crowdfunding' after linking to Ko-Fi). Cool, awesome, that's gonna be a great monopolistic picture for those that get un
29. 239.▲
    by kotaKat 3mo ago

    I've been using retractable USB-C cables with as many compact "connector-size" dongles as I can get my hands on. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FC1HSS9X/ for RJ45/Ethernet - these are super small
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    by kotaKat 3mo ago

    You're absolutely right! .... and that's because the mainframe industry is so heavily gatekept that the information feels practically word-of-mouth between a circle of old greybeards that don't want to let the kids touch it.